Influence of the Internal-Mammary-Artery Graft on 10-Year Survival and Other Cardiac Events

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 314, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 1-6

  Loop, Floyd D ^a   Lytle, Bruce W ^a   Cosgrove, Delos M ^a   Stewart, Robert W ^a   Goormastic, Marlene ^a   Williams, George W ^a   Golding, Leonard A R ^a   Gill, Carl C ^a   Taylor, Paul C ^a   Sheldon, William C ^a   Proudfit, William L ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURVIVAL; THERAPY;

EID: 0022629896     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198601023140101     Document Type: Article

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